Committee Description

1. seek to illuminate harsh and unfair sentencing practices that are responsible for mass incarceration and racial disparities in the prison system;
2. support and seek to increase trust and public Safety by advancing effective law-enforcement practices;
3. fight for the restoration of the voting rights of formally incarcerated people and the removal of barriers to employment;
4. elevate the voices of crime victim survivors in order to identify and advance systemic breakdowns existing in the criminal justice system that perpetuate crime;
5. resolve to end the war on drugs for its disproportionate collateral consequences harm communities of color;
6. seek the institution and availability of alternatives to incarceration including education employment and mental health services;
7. illuminate zero tolerance policy is implemented in our schools which are keeping kids out of the classroom and putting them on a path from the school house to the jailhouse;
8. investigate programs implemented in our local law-enforcement agencies which do you rail from their main purpose of safety and order to conduct the work of federal agencies for which they do not have the capacity, and;
9. seek budget modifications in states where incarceration receives more funding than education.